The former Governor, who spoke on Wednesday at the Arewa TechFest in Katsina, revealed that the coalition movement held a very important meeting on Tuesday night as part of efforts towards unseating and the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2027 elections.

He added jokingly that the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, , would be retained because he is doing a good job.

“Our entire team came to Katsina yesterday, not only to work with the Katsina State government to carry out the preparation for this event, but they had to come because yesterday at 8 PM, there was a very important meeting of the coalition we’re putting together to ensure that President Tinubu goes back to Lagos. Thought we will still keep Bosun Tijani, we will still keep the minister because he is doing good work,” El-Rufai said.

reports that the disclosure comes a few hours after this platform reported that top opposition leaders in Nigeria have reportedly on a coalition for the 2027 presidential election targeted at unseating President Bola Tinubu.

It is understood that foremost opposition figures, including former Vice President of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of the Labour Party (LP) and former Kaduna State Governor, of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), concluded months of discussions about unifying on Tuesday.

This was made known in a report published by Bloomberg on Wednesday, quoting sources familiar with the discussions among the coalition leaders.

According to the report, the coalition movement has agreed to adopt the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the political party to achieve its mission.